Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISBecause of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
ALAN PERLISIn English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
ALAN PERLISIn man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
ALAN PERLISWhen it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
ALAN PERLISMotto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
ALAN PERLISFORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
ALAN PERLISWhen a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
ALAN PERLISA LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
ALAN PERLISYou can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
ALAN PERLISSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISEverything should be built top-down, except the first time.
ALAN PERLISThere are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
ALAN PERLISHardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
ALAN PERLISTo understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
ALAN PERLISIt is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
ALAN PERLISIn the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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